Patch
Spots
Spots noun - Spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens.
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- Patch in Banjo-Tooie, in which the player has to aim at randomly appearing weak spots while struggling with clunky flying controls and trying not to get clobbered by exploding beach balls.
Source: Goddamned Boss -
Originally this meant a specific sound when the feature was activated and an outline around objects within a certain radius of the character; a patch later added glowing spots that would temporarily appear on the mini map.
- Due to the Randomly Generated Levels, though, they sometimes "guard" empty rooms with their back facing the only door or uselessly patrolling between two spots in a room constantly uselessly staring at a wall, or turrets facing the wrong way and watching over a patch of useless wall.
Source: Video Game / Invisible, Inc.
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